Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
There is no such place as away.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.
When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.
It is already too late to avoid mass starvation
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
Human beings cannot live without stories.
Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
Celebrate Earth Day every day.
Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists spent the day drawing attention to the Earth, while the Earth just spent the day checking Facebook to see which planets wished it a happy Earth Day.
Shouldn't every day be Earth Day? I mean, what are our options?
There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.
Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.
Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
The earth is what we all have in common.
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.
Strange is our situation here upon earth.
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Forests are the lungs of our land......